Dubliners

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences. They centre on Joyce's idea of an epiphany: a moment where a character experiences self-understanding or illumination. Many of the characters in Dubliners later appear in minor roles in Joyce's novel Ulysses. The initial stories in the collection are narrated by child protagonists, and as the stories continue, they deal with the lives and concerns of progressively older people. This is in line with Joyce's tripartite division of the collection into childhood, adolescence and maturity.

• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
• Ulysses (The Gabler Edition)
• To the Lighthouse
• The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1: Modern Poetry
• English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
• Selected Poems And Four Plays of William Butler Yeats
• Ulysses (Shine Classics)
• Ulysses Annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
• Pale Horse, Pale Rider (H B J MODERN CLASSIC)
• Three Dublin Plays: The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock, & The Plough and the Stars